--- title: The news shows the worst things, so ask an adult to explain and limi… — Facing fears · tree and pragmatics description: The news shows the worst things, so ask an adult to explain and limit how much news you watch. Who acts: news, you. A sentence of the lesson «Facing fears» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Facing fears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/) / 13 # Facing fears, sentence 13 The news shows the worst things, so ask an adult to explain and limit how much news you watch. **Who acts:** news, you · **What happens:** show, ask, explain, limit, watch · **To what, where:** worst things, adult, much news This is a sentence of the lesson «Facing fears» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:090-facing-fears.lesson:13 # text = The news shows the worst things, so ask an adult to explain and limit how much news you watch. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 090-facing-fears.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 iobj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 limit limit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 16 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 17 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 watch watch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed form=imp | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | the news | the worst things | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | a adult | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **limit** | infinitive | | much news | | | | | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer news=Patient | | 5 | **watch** | present | you | much news *not said here* | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:090-facing-fears.lesson:13`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Facing fears, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/12/) - next →: [Facing fears, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/)